Complete Guide to Red Harvest/Yojimbo Adaptations/Remakes
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1. Roadhouse Nights (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 127
Ironically enough, first and only official adaptation of Hammett's novel bears nearly no resemblance to source material.
2. Maniac (1934)
Not Rated | 51 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller
Votes: 2,705
There is a rather hilarious spin on that kind of plot in the climax of this movie.
3. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Texan Tom Buchanan is heading back home with enough money to start his own ranch, but when he stops in the crooked town of Agry, he's robbed and framed for murder.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley, Tol Avery
Votes: 3,228
4. Yojimbo (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 131,333
5. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 232,634 | Gross: $14.50M
6. Django (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Drama, Western
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Franco Nero, José Canalejas, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak
Votes: 30,991 | Gross: $0.03M
7. The Silent Stranger (1968)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Western
An American gunfighter is tasked with delivering a valuable scroll to a feudal lord in Japan, and becomes embroiled in a feud between the lord and his rival cousin over ownership of land owed to a young princess in their care.
Director: Luigi Vanzi | Stars: Tony Anthony, Lloyd Battista, Hitoshi Ômae, Kanji Ohara
Votes: 322
8. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa
Votes: 2,828
9. Cry of a Prostitute (1974)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A reformed prostitute joins forces with a paid assassin to end an Italian gang war.
Director: Andrea Bianchi | Stars: Henry Silva, Barbara Bouchet, Fausto Tozzi, Vittorio Sanipoli
Votes: 712
10. Karate Warriors (1976)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs to take them down from the inside.
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Isao Natsuyagi, Akiko Koyama, Akane Kawasaki
Votes: 393
11. La ciudad maldita (1978)
91 min | Crime, Mystery, Western
A murder-mystery set in the old wild-west. A wandering gunman/lawman comes to a town in the old west where lawlessness and crime roam.
Director: Juan Bosch | Stars: Chet Bakon, Diana Lorys, Roberto Camardiel, Daniel Martín
Votes: 54
12. Zabud'te slovo 'smert' (1979)
82 min | Adventure
Director: Samvel Gasparov | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Pyotr Merkurev, Konstantin Stepankov, Oleg Korchikov
Votes: 30
13. Cop or Hood (1979)
PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset
Votes: 3,104
14. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps
Votes: 193,660 | Gross: $12.47M
Second half of the movie bears quite a resemblance to "Yojimbo".
15. The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
R | 81 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A fearsome swordsman, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands and comes upon a town where two arch enemies fight incessantly for control of the town's only well.
Director: John C. Broderick | Stars: David Carradine, Luke Askew, María Socas, Anthony De Longis
Votes: 2,527 | Gross: $2.89M
16. When the Raven Flies (1984)
R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An Irish man seeks vengeance against the vikings who killed his parents.
Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Stars: Jakob Þór Einarsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Helgi Skúlason, Gotti Sigurdarson
Votes: 2,570
17. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
Directors: George Miller, George Ogilvie | Stars: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn
Votes: 147,603 | Gross: $36.20M
This time resemblance is more evident in the first half of the movie.
18. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John P. Ryan, Perry Lopez
Votes: 11,110 | Gross: $6.88M
19.
Garfield and Friends (1988–1995)
Episode:
The Lasagna Zone/U.S. Acres: Sleepytime Pig/Yojumbo
(1989)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Lasagna Zone: Jon brings home a new satellite dish with an unusual warning which Garfield doesn't notice and as a result, winds up in the TV. Sleepytime Pig: The Sandman missed the farm... See full summary »
Directors: Steve Clark, John Walker, Bob Curtis | Stars: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Howard Morris, Gregg Berger
Votes: 50
Segment "Yojumbo".
20. Miller's Crossing (1990)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden
Votes: 142,123 | Gross: $5.08M
21.
Pokémon (1997–2023)
Episode:
Showdown! Pokémon Gym!
(1998)
TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The gang arrive in a place called Dark City to find that two rival gyms have been terrorizing the place with their feud.
Director: Masamitsu Hidaka | Stars: Rikako Aikawa, Madeleine Blaustein, Megumi Hayashibara, Rodger Parsons
Votes: 508
22. The Hitman (1991)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Cop goes undercover as a Hitman to bring down a criminal organization.
Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson
Votes: 4,336 | Gross: $4.65M
23. El Mariachi (1992)
R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt
Votes: 71,282 | Gross: $2.04M
24. Mohra (1994)
177 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A journalist comes to the aid of a murderer with a life sentence when she makes an appeal in court and although he is given his freedom, they soon discover that there is a grim reason behind his release.
Director: Rajiv Rai | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 8,671
An unofficial (at times - shot-for-shot) remake of "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown".
25. Fresh (1994)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.
Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright
Votes: 14,583 | Gross: $8.09M
26. Peace Hotel (1995)
89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired old west killer sets up a hotel for vagrants and wayward souls called Peace Hotel. When a woman with a gang on her tail attempts to hide there the owner of the hotel must revert to his old ways to protect his hotel.
Director: Ka-Fai Wai | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip, Ho Chin, Shun Lau
Votes: 1,286
27. Steel Frontier (1995 Video)
R | 105 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic 2019, a lone gunman named Yuma fights a gang of bandits called the United Regime who have invaded the town of New Hope.
Directors: Jacobsen Hart, Paul G. Volk | Stars: Joe Lara, Bo Svenson, Stacie Foster, Brion James
Votes: 640
28. Last Man Standing (1996)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken
Votes: 60,993 | Gross: $17.60M
29. Omega Doom (1996)
R | 84 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote
Votes: 3,335
30. Sekal Has to Die (1998)
109 min | Drama
Baran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.
Director: Vladimír Michálek | Stars: Olaf Lubaszenko, Boguslaw Linda, Jirí Bartoska, Agnieszka Sitek
Votes: 1,032
31. Single Action (1998)
76 min | Action, Drama
The killing of a political leader shatters the peace of a small Mexican town. MANCO, the brother of the murdered presidential candidate knows the killer and sets out to exact his revenge. ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Gallardo | Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Alejandra Prado, Miguel Gurza, Óscar Castañeda
Votes: 74 | Gross: $0.54M
32. Desert Heat (1999)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A man (JCVD) drives out in the desert where some men steal his motorcycle and leave him for dead. He survives and no longer thinks of suicide as he now has a purpose in life: revenge and getting his bike back.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pat Morita, Danny Trejo, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick
Votes: 10,673
33. Cold Harvest (1999 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A bounty hunter protects his dead brother's wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth.
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Gary Daniels, Bryan Genesse, Barbara Crampton, David Sherwood
Votes: 683
34. Kaze No Yojimbo (2001–2002)
23 min | Animation, Action, Mystery
In this modern day reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo, Jyouji ("George") Kodama has arrived in Kimujuku, a town distinctly divided by two rival factions, in order to search for a ... See full summary »
Stars: Mari Devon, Kirk Thornton, Jim Ward, Michael McConnohie
Votes: 93
35. Gun Crazy: Episode 1 - A Woman from Nowhere (2002 Video)
65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A western set in 2002 Okinawa, Japan, where a woman on a mission rides her Harley Davidson into lawless Tsuson. Fortunately, she's quite capable of defending herself, with or without weapons.
Director: Atsushi Muroga | Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Shingo Tsurumi, Takeshi Yamato, Shun Sugata
Votes: 168
36. Bashmachnik (2002)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director: Vladimir Zaykin | Stars: Sergey Gorobchenko, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Valeriy Prokhorov, Semyon Furman
Votes: 52
37. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 800,923 | Gross: $7.56M
38. Deadwood (2004–2006)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History
A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.
Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Brad Dourif
Votes: 117,604
39. Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses. Under constant surveillance by Detective Brikowski and assassin Goodkat, he must get them before they get him.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu
Votes: 325,650 | Gross: $22.50M
40. Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
R | 121 min | Action, Western
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Quentin Tarantino, Yûsuke Iseya
Votes: 15,837 | Gross: $0.05M
41. Stariki-polkovniki (2007 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime
Two leading characters, Andrey Andreevich and Oleg Borisovich are both retired colonels. One of them headed a local KGB department and the other a local police station. But time came to ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Benkendorf | Stars: Boris Abramov, Lev Durov, Natalya Gudkova, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 9
42. Ochkarik (2012 TV Movie)
89 min | Crime
A literature teacher takes revenge on criminal group for the murder of his wife and little daughter.
Director: Igor Kopylov | Stars: Yan Tsapnik, Igor Chernevich, Andrey Dezhonov, Artur Vakha
Votes: 16
43. Live by Night (2016)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina
Votes: 59,817 | Gross: $10.38M
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